Theresa Makone and her husband Ian were among the Movement for Democratic Change members arrested in what appeared to be a purge of MDC activists in March 2007. Police reportedly confiscated two guns from Makone’s home.
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Movement for Democratic Change candidate Theresa Makone was allegedly threatened with death for planning to run as a Member of Parliament by youths allegedly belonging to the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front in 2004.
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Oppah Muchinguri is one of the most powerful women in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. She was an aide to ZANLA commander Josiah Tongogara and survived the accident that killed him. Some people believe that Muchinguri is being rewarded for keeping quiet about how Tongogara really died just days before he was supposed to return to Zimbabwe with the rest of the ZANU-PF leaders and military. But even then she still remains a political power player within the party and the presidential succession battle. There are 25 Wikileaks cables on her. Here they are.
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Elements from the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, including retired general Solomon Mujuru, were in contact with Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai two days after the elections seeking to deny President Robert Mugabe a victory.
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The Mutasa who told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee that Oppah Muchinguri was a Karanga not a Manyika was not Didymus but Manatsa. The error is strongly regretted.
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Oppah Muchinguri, fired as Minister of Women’s Affairs because President Robert Mugabe could no longer accommodate those who had lost in the 2008 elections, bounced back as a member of the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee of the inclusive government.
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Oppah Muchinguri was one of the nine ministers who lost their posts, more than nine months after losing the 2008 elections, when President Robert Mugabe was forced to comply with a standing constitutional requirement that a minister should be a member of either the upper or lower house.
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Britain instructed its foreign office two years ago to push the Kimberley Process to investigate Zimbabwe’s eligibility to the diamond controlling body and to approach leading non-governmental organisations Global Witness and Partnership Africa Canada to do research and report on Zimbabwe’s trafficking in conflict diamonds because the KP was too slow, a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks says.
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Women’s Affairs Minister Oppah Muchinguri was named as one of the beneficiaries from the Chiadzwa Diamond in Marange.
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The entry of Simba Makoni into the 2008 presidential race was going to strengthen the opposition by tapping into disaffected ZANU-PF supporters and was going to make rigging for President Robert Mugabe more difficult, United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee said.
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